Reciprocal Teaching - River Dog

Today in reading we did Reciprocal reading with our reading groups. The book we were doing for Reciprocal reading was river dog. We had to take turns to be the leader. i had lot's of fun being the leader because it's fun being a leader and in my group we all take turn's being a leader.

Life On Mars

5-7-10 battle of the storm troopers

5-7- 10 Battle of the Storm troopers

Photo courtesy of Lewis Moorhead, www.flewdesigns.com

BOOM! “Come on get out of the way he's gonna shoot you. Come on get moving.”

“Sir one ship is down. OH NO GET DOWN!”

BOOM! 

“Phew! Thank you.”

“Hey we need some more guns.”

“Yes sir.”

Then one of the storm troopers went to go get some more guns.
Then he came back with no guns and he said that there was no more guns. 

Then the boss said “Oh no! what should we do?”

The storm trooper said “We should find some space ships.”

The boss agrees. So the storm troopers went to go
find some space ships that they stole from the zombies.
Then he came back shouting out and waving to the other storm troopers and the boss.
The boss couldn't believe his eyes. He ran as fast as he could with the other storm troopers
to the spaceships and they flew to look for another plant.

Tapa Patterns

At the start of this term we made a tapa patterns. First we drew patterns on a hard piece of paper with a sketching pencils. Then we shade the patterns with vivid and rubbed out the mi-stacks that we made. then we dyed our tapas cloth and let them dry. then we finally scrunch the tapa cloths.

Word Cline- Big

Today in writing we did a Word Cline we had to choose a word for our Word Cline my word was big then we had to search up on our thesaurus.   

S.T.E.A.M Mind Map

We did a bus stop activity called S.T.E.A.M We used lucid chart to make a mind map. steam stands for Maths, Art, Technology, Engineering, Science. 

Zoo recount 

Yes! I couldn't wait to go to the zoo. We went to the zoo because the Warehouse sponsored us and Richie's buses paid for us to go on the bus for free. Even though we are learning about space we decided to go to the zoo. I couldn’t wait to see all the animals. 

When we got there we met these two men there names were Hohepa and Patrick. They were the people to show us around Africa. When they said that we could go explore the zoo we all quickly went to our groups. I was in Miss Charlon’s group. It was so fun because we looked like we were exploring the jungle with a map. First we saw the spider monkeys. The baby spider monkeys were so cute! That's what all my group said. We had a little snack while we were watching the spider monkeys. Then we just went to go see the other animals. The next thing we saw was the red pandas. We met up with Ms Kiripatrick’s group. We didn’t see the red pandas we were thinking that they were sleeping. So we waited for them to come out. After waiting for the red pandas to come out. We finally saw the red pandas they were so interesting. After meeting up with Ms Kiripatrick we went to see some more animals. Then we went to go see the lizards they were also very interesting and amazing. There was some camouflage lizards too. Then we saw the tiger. The tiger was not there when we went the first time it was not there. When we went the second time but we saw it. While we were passing by so all of us ran quickly to see it before it went into the big long grass. We were not there for a long time.

After we all explored the zoo in our groups we met up with Hohepa and Patrick. Hohepa was with us and Patrick was with Room 4. The first thing Hohepa showed us was the baboon. We couldn’t really see it so we waited until it came out. Finally we saw it and we saw its pink bum. We learnt that baboons bum feels like a rock. Hohepa said that it's like a pillow so when they sit down it feels comfortable. That's why we went to go see the cheetahs we all had to sit down by the glass wall and face Hohepa he told us all about cheetahs he said that cheetahs are not just fast by themselves things part of their body helps their claws to grab onto the grass. They grab onto the grass so they can jump long distances away. That is why it can be easier for them to run. After that we went and saw the elephants their names were Burma and Anjalee. We learnt that when elephants put dirt or hay on them it’s like sun block. We also learnt that when elephants poop makes it into paper. Then we had a lunch break and watch Anjalee and Burma. Then we the last animal we saw was the flamingos we didn’t really learn that much about them. We ask some questions and one of them was standing on one leg. We learnt that when flamingos stand on one leg. 

Then we went to go and see all the other animals. The first animal we saw in Africa was the  meerkats they had really small ears and there was a little tunnel to crawl in. When we went there we saw Miss Charon and her group. We all went into the tunnel and there was a little bit where you can stand up. There was to tunnels and there was also a little bit where you can stand up. That little bit where you can stand up it’s clear and when people look at the meerkats it looks like were in where the meerkats were. After we watched the meerkats. We went to see the zebras and giraffes we all marched in a line and followed Miss Charon. Then we went to go see the zebras and giraffes. We all made room so that the short people can see the animals. Finally we went back to where we started and had some lunch were drinking  our water. 

I loved seeing the other animals. I can’t wait to go back to school because my legs were so sore, even though we are learning about space we decided to go to the zoo anyway. I couldn’t wait to see all the animals.